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A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinaesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status --all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremenduous sexual event really: a liberation
Source: Interview in Penthouse (London, 1970; repr. in Re/Search, no. 8/9, San Francisco, 1984).
-- J G Ballard, (Nov 15 1930-2009), English novelist; He writes books of surrealistic fiction with apocalyptic themes; wrote the best-selling novel Empire of the Sun, 1984.